The JOY Broadcast

A decade ago, my life was torn apart. Ten years on, I feel like I’ve come full circle. This half term didn’t break my heart open again. It felt like closing the book.
In this final episode of the spiritual practices series, I share two of my own spiritual practices. The first is connecting with the spirit within me. The second is connecting with the spirits around me, especially my mum.
In this episode, I share:
How the hardest chapter of my life cracked me open and woke up the spirit within me, so I could finally choose me
Feeling my mum close in my darkest moments, and why I think the veil between worlds gets thinner when we’re in despair
My practice of asking my spirit “what’s going on?” and letting my pen write freely, from a 3am page three years ago to a walk under this week’s full moon
What the full moon told me: I just want to write
My five Ds (death, divorce, dead ends, depression and dysmorphia) and how each plot twist gave me a book: CALM, born from losing my mum
BLOOM, born from the end of my first marriage and my return to myself
THRIVE, born from depression and dysmorphia, and healing from the inside out
BUILD, born from dead ends and learning to dream again
MAGIC, born from living my delusional dreams

Snippets from the letter I wrote to my mum asking for her help to get these books into the hands of the women who need them
A little pause: I’m heading into my writer’s cave to finish the five books in the JOY series. That means The Joy Broadcast is taking a short break. Since we launched on 22nd February 2024, we haven’t missed a single week, so a huge thank you to my wonderful podcast editor Mischa and to every guest who has joined me. This isn’t goodbye. I have a strong feeling I’ll be back on 22nd February 2027, perhaps even reading the books to you here. Thank you for being the most wonderful audience. See you in 2027. 💛
This episode mentions grief, the breakdown of a marriage, infertility and mental health struggles, including depression and disordered eating. Please listen gently.
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What if the structure you’ve been looking for didn’t have to feel like a stick to beat yourself with?
This episode wasn’t the one I had planned. After a time zone mix-up with my final guest in the spiritual practices series (she’s now saved for the next series), I sat down for a fireside chat instead. It was sparked by a word I spotted on Pinterest while creating my writer’s desk aesthetic: flowpreneur.
I share why rigid routines have never worked for me, what a Gina Ford timetable and a sleeping baby taught me about structure, and how you can build a simple weekly framework that supports you without restricting you.
In this episode:
Why “flowpreneur” : balancing strategy and energetics, and why having frameworks to flow in feels so liberating
From Gina Ford to Tracy Hogg: how the EASY routine (eat, activity, sleep, you) became my very first framework to flow
The three WOWs: Woman of Wellness and Wellbeing, Woman of Wonder and Wholeness, and Woman of Work and Wealth
Why first impressions still count: one client’s thoughts on how looking after yourself shows others how you’ll look after them
The three Es: how I use exercise, eat and easy to support my wellbeing each day
Flowing with the seasons: why your focus can shift with your era of life, the time of year and your cycle
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Ten years ago, if you’d handed me a crystal and told me it could change my life, I’d have laughed you out of the room. So how did I end up with rose quartz on my desk, citrine in my pocket and a pouch of stones getting me pulled aside at airport security on my way home from Tanzania?
This week I’m continuing my Guests & Gurus series, and I’m thrilled to welcome my very first male guest to The Joy Broadcast: Mart Tweedy, founder of Canny Crystals. Crystals were one of the very first doors I walked through when I followed my curiosity into the spiritual world, so this conversation feels like coming full circle.
Mart’s story is one of the most moving I’ve heard. A boy who grew up with no money but so much love. A mental health worker in the NHS, £30,000 in debt. A Tipping Point win of exactly the £3,500 he’d been visualising in the bath (seagull sounds and all). And then, at the very height of everything going right, the loss of his granddad, the man who raised him. From that grief came a £10 parcel of crystals, a new life, and a business named after his granddad’s Geordie saying: “Gan canny, son.”
Five years on, Canny Crystals has over 100,000 followers, a chart-topping spirituality podcast, 60,000 orders and counting, an academy, and Manifest, the North’s biggest manifestation event.
In this episode we talk about:
Airport security, crystals in bras, and the day Google autocorrected “crystals” to something very different in front of Spanish customs
Mart’s first experiment with manifestation after reading The Secret, and the Tipping Point win that followed
Visualising himself on the sofa with Alison Hammond, and how she turned up on her day off
Losing his granddad, the darkest months of his life, and the first five crystals that helped him through
How crystals actually work: energy, vibration, intention, and why talking to your crystals isn’t as mad as it sounds
The best crystals for overwhelm when your head is too full (amethyst and howlite)
Why “which crystal should I buy?” is like walking into Tesco and saying “I’m hungry”
Smart Mart, the AI version of Mart trained on everything he’s ever created
Using crystals with children, and the amethyst geode that finally got his newborn sleeping
Moldavite: the “scary” crystal, the viral TikTok, the 50+ Canny Crystals babies, and the story of Jacob, his Moldavite baby
How to start working with your very first crystal, today
Manifest 2027 and the dream of a spiritual Glastonbury (cows included)
Mart’s simple starter practice:
Pick one small tumble stone. Know what it’s for. Each morning, hold it, close your eyes, smile and say: “Come on then, show me how good today can get.” That’s it. Start small. Notice what shifts.
Crystals mentioned:
Rose quartz (self-worth and heart healing), citrine (joy and abundance), green aventurine (health and wellbeing), black tourmaline (protection), amethyst (calm and intuition), howlite (stress and anxiety), pyrite (money), moldavite (transformation), plus my airport pouch of obsidian, labradorite, selenite, moonstone and jasper.
Connect with Mart:
Canny Crystals: cannycrystals.co.uk (chat to Smart Mart via the black bubble, bottom right)
Instagram: @cannycrystals
Manifest 2027: 26 and 27 June 2027, Newcastle. Tickets at https://www.mani-fest.uk/
Connect with Ali:
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A gentle note: this episode includes conversation about grief and suicide. If anything here brings up something difficult for you, please reach out to someone you trust, or call Samaritans free on 116 123, any time, day or night.
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Do you tarot?  Have you got an Oracle deck? or are you a full cynic like I once was?!  
Perhaps you pulled a card and felt it was speaking directly to you? Back in 2016, in the deepest, darkest depression of my life, I found myself on retreat here in Yorkshire, picking a card from the little deck on the entrance desk every single visit. And every single time, it felt like exactly what I needed to hear.
This is the second episode in my series on the spiritual practices that helped me find my way back to joy, and I am delighted to welcome Kate May, The Modern Day Mystic, to the Joy Broadcast.
Kate has been reading tarot professionally for around 20 years. Her story begins with free cards from a magazine, a teenage summer job printing astrology reports at the end of a pier, and a palm reader who told her she would marry twice and work in America. Thirty years later, she discovered that same palm reader was about to become her mother-in-law. Goosebumps!
Key takeaway: Take time out to reflect, but keep one eye open for the opportunity floating in on the wind. Step into your power, get seen, and remember there is still time to make the magic happen this year.
Whether you are a curious beginner, a cynic (like I was ten years ago!), or already have a deck on your bedside table, this episode is an invitation to reconnect with your intuition and feel good doing it. After all, that’s the aim of the game.
Connect with Kate May
Website & to book a personal reading: https://kate-may.co.uk/
Instagram: @katemaymoderndaymystic_
Also on YouTube, TikTok and Facebook, and her books are available on Amazon (search Kate May Modern Day Mystic)
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Welcome to the very first episode of a brand new series on The Joy Broadcast!
After celebrating 100 episodes, I wanted to do something different. This series brings together a collective of incredible people whose work and modalities have helped me on my own journey back to joy. Manifestation. Visualisation. Energy work. Sound healing. All the things the corporate version of me would have rolled her eyes at a decade ago. Each episode, you’ll meet one of the teachers who showed up exactly when I needed them, and you’ll hear how their tools could help you too.
And who better to open the series than the woman who gave me one of the most powerful experiences of my life?
At Manifest in 2025, Victoria Jackson guided a room full of us through a visualisation that brought me to ugly, glorious tears. I saw the beach house. The curtains blowing in the wind. My husband surrounded by our grandchildren. A wall of photographs from a life well lived. It wasn’t a daydream. It felt like a memory of my future.
Victoria was once the biggest cynic. A menswear magazine editor travelling the world, meeting Vivienne Westwood and Tom Ford, invited to Downing Street, and deeply unhappy. Crying on the M62, hair falling out, heart racing. When a friend suggested The Secret, she thought it was absolute rubbish. Then something clicked. Gratitude. A pink feather in an envelope. £125, to the exact pound. And the morning she told her colleagues she’d manifested her way out of her job, the whole department was made redundant by lunchtime.
Today, Victoria is the founder of The Manifestation Collective, an author of three books, and a self-confessed “slow manifester”. Together we explore why detachment speeds things up, why you must become the person who can hold the magic rather than simply receive it, and how visualisation works as a dress rehearsal for who you’re becoming.
Cynic or believer, this one is for you.
In this episode we explore
Why gratitude is the foundation of all joy, and how it shifted everything on Victoria’s daily commute
The pink feather, the £125 and the redundancy: what rapid manifestation taught her about detachment
Being a “slow manifester” and the four year journey from Instagram story to speaking at Happy Place Festival
Why you need to become the person who holds the magic, the money and the love
The microwave generation: chasing the feeling rather than the thing
The biggest blocks to manifestation: fear of failure, worthiness and money that never feels safe to keep
Visualisation as dress rehearsal, and why athletes use it to win
Self-concept work for health and money, including the dream weight on the scales
Victoria’s Human Design as a 3/5 Manifestor and why she needed the science
Romanticising your life: the five star turndown service you can give yourself tonight
Connect with Victoria
The Manifestation Collective website
Instagram: @themanifestationcollective
The Manifestation Collective podcast
The Manifestation Collective Membership
Connect with Ali
Instagram: @alimortimer_thejoycoach
The Joy Brief weekly newsletter, quick links and weekly offers
Substack: Brilliant Women Breaking Rules
The Joy Shop with me!
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